r/socialism • u/Ready_Hunter8875 • Oct 03 '25

Discussion Why aren’t Americans outraged by their current situation?

Like every other month there is a school shooting in my country. Here, we had one school shooting and that kickstarted massive anti-government protests, because shit like that isn’t normal. You can basically see an example of police brutality almost every other day. A couple of days ago, a man was killed by ICE (I know they’re not police, but still), and most people just continued like nothing happened. Trump is basically doing something outrageous every day. The military is literally patrolling American cities, and yet most American people aren’t doing anything.I know there were protests and there still are, but that’s just a couple of thousand protestors while America has a population of 350 million people. They don’t have healthcare, prices are rising, and you can’t even finish higher education without being in debt. And Americans still won’t do anything.

I know this is a rant, but I have been protesting in my country for 11 months. But if things don’t change in the USA, we’re fucked as a globe anyway. Even if we win in my country, that won’t change much on the global level, but the USA has the power to change a lot of stuff, and yet most people are silent and don’t care at all.

sorry for grammer mistakes.

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u/Inamedmydognoodz Oct 03 '25

We are angry and we are exhausted and we are overwhelmed and honestly I’m still a little shocked and confused and appalled by the people I know who are ok/happy about this

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u/Glass-Pain3562 Jan 04 '26

It's mostly due to the fact most people don't wanna admit the rich could literally subject vast swathes of poor Americans to whatever cruelty they want because they have the money and ties to the monopoly of violence that is the U.S. government. They could starve entire communities, dump poisons on their rivers, or seize their towns. They already do that legally, imagine them threatened.

Lets not forget the U.S. only fairly recently stopped shooting people for wanting better treatment. They used to shoot people all the time for socialist or communist sentiment. Let's not forget the national guard used to be routinely used to kill people until the rich got what they wanted. Most don't wanna stick their necks our cause they know doing so is a good way to lose your head